Dataset Information

Understanding Challenges and Emotions of Informal Caregivers of General Older Adults and People With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia: Comparative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Faced with multiple challenges, informal caregivers often turn to online support communities for information and support. While scholarly attention has focused on experiences expressed by informal caregivers in these communities, how caregivers' challenges and emotional expressions vary across different health contexts remains understudied.

Objective

We aimed to examine and compare the challenges discussed by informal caregivers of general older adults and those of patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementia, as well as their emotional expressions, on Reddit. In addition, we examined how informal caregivers expressed their emotions in response to various challenges.